I noticed the poster showed they are making a Rebels animated Obi-Wan. Could this mean a story arc could take place on Tatooine? Could we perhaps see a young Luke on the show?? That to me adds excitement to the upcoming debut of the cartoon

I noticed the poster showed they are making a Rebels animated Obi-Wan. Could this mean a story arc could take place on Tatooine? Could we perhaps see a young Luke on the show?? That to me adds excitement to the upcoming debut of the cartoon

Me neither, that is cool. The Jedi Temple Guard is clearly not a Rebels figure as they would have been long gone by the time that series starts, this has to be Hasbro throwing us another bone and releasing one of the Clone Wars figures they already had in production before the line was aborted (as per that rumor report) and I am super, super grateful they decided to do this.

Now, if we can just get Pong Krell and Rako Hardeen who were also on that list, I'd be over the moon.

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The Jedi Temple Guard is clearly not a Rebels figure as they would have been long gone by the time that series starts...

My take upon seeing the Temple Guard and OWK was that Rebels either starts with a pretty hefty prologue set in ROTS time period or flashes back there for an episode early on. Still cool figures to see.

The Jedi Temple Guardian is definitely the star of this lineup for me. Very, very cool to offer that up. I suspect that Clone Wars characters are sneaking their way into this line simply because there's nowhere else to place them. Same goes for Commander Gree. I wish that the JT Guardian was in a line that wasn't limited to 5 POA, but that's another discussion.

Also interesting to see a REBELS Obi-Wan in the mix. It pretty much says right there that he's likely to turn up in the show. And you had to figure with the offering of the AT-DP walker that there would be a pilot, so that figure is pretty welcome, too.

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I think they're bundling the REBELS figures and SAGA LEGENDS together in the same line in order to minimize/simplify the number of lines that are shipping to retail. That way the retailers are only ordering TWO 3.75" basic figures lines: The Black Series and REBELS/SAGA LEGENDS.

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